In this book, the authors provide a treatment of the VoIP emergency calling process that is both comprehensive, looking at all aspects of emergency calling, and practical, providing technical details on how such functions can be implemented. In addition, the authors describe the standardization efforts of the Internet Engineering Task Force who are currently working to improve the situation for VoIP emergency calls. The book provides an overview of emergency calling with a particular focus on the ECRIT emergency calling architecture, and discusses considerations related to implementation, deployment, and regulation of next-generation emergency calling. It also takes a look at practical aspects of emergency calling, with a set of exercises to help the reader get familiar with the technologies involved INDICE: Foreword List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 Calling over theInternet 1.2 VoIP emergency calling problem statement 1.3 Emergency Communication 1.4 Overview of this book References 2 Emergency Calling 2.1 Overview 2.2Infrastructure requirements 2.3 The role of location information References 3The ECRIT emergency calling architecture 3.1 Overview 3.2 Location information 3.3 Service URNs 3.4 Determining the appropriate PSAP - the LoST protocol 3.5 The Emergency Call Itself 3.6 Home Dial String Configuration via LoST 3.7 Deployment models 3.8 Considerations for proxies 3.9 Standardization 3.10 Summary References 4 Including location information 4.1 Location configuration 4.2 Positioning using GPS 4.3 Network-based positioning 4.4 Location Hiding 4.5 Default Location References 5 Implementation and Regulatory considerations 5.1 Distribution of implementation tasks 5.2 Austria 5.3 United States 5.4 European Union 5.5 Japan 5.6 Summary References 6 VoIP emergency calling in practice 6.1 Software 6.2 Practice Exercises References 7 Security 7.1 ECRIT security 7.2Location security 7.3 PSAP and VoIP network security References 8 Ongoing emergency calling work 8.1 Prototyping, Implementation, and Interoperability 8.2 Ongoing Standardization Issues 8.3 Ongoing Implementation issues References 9 Summary and the outlook for the future
- ISBN: 978-0-470-66594-7
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 232
- Fecha Publicación: 19/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés